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Pocket dictionary. Original leather boards rubbed and worn at corners. Paper split at hinge inside front cover and separating at rear. Occasional foxing. Seller Inventory # 16600
Title: A Dictionary of the English Language ...
Publisher: London Peacocks and Bampton
Publication Date: 1825
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
12mo. in eights. 3.75 x 5.25 inches. xxvii + unpaginated [260 pp.]. Text in double columns. Bound in original tree calf with gilt borders; spine in compartments, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon morocco title label, gilt. Marbled endpapers. A little wear to extremities and traces of foxing; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by engraved portrait bust frontispiece. A pocket dictionary of English, claiming to be derived from Dr. Johnson's original dictionary, with various additions. We have not been able to trace any earlier additions of this particular version of the title, although there are several later ones published by Peacock; nevertheless an attractive little book. LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES DICTIONARIES ENGLISH 19TH CENTURY LANGUAGE. Seller Inventory # 25627
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